Mai Vang
D · U.S. House, CA-7 · Tier 4/5
Tier 4/5, between “Critical / conditions aid” and “Critical on most positions”
Progressive Sacramento City Councilmember who finished first in the June top-two primary — 62,158 votes (30.8%) to Matsui’s 58,648 (29.1%) — advancing to a November Democrat-vs-Democrat general against the incumbent. In January 2024 she and Katie Valenzuela introduced a CAIR-drafted Sacramento ceasefire resolution, which Mayor Steinberg refused to agendize; she then backed his bilateral replacement but missed that vote for “prearranged family commitments,” saying she supported it despite disagreeing with “several of the whereas clauses” because it demanded a permanent ceasefire to “end the genocidal killing of Palestinians.” Her campaign is anti-AIPAC and ICE-focused; endorsed by Justice Democrats, WFP, DSA, and Sunrise. The genocide framing is in her own voice — her platform’s foreign-policy section is headed “Stop the Genocide in Palestine” — and she pledges to “immediately sign onto” the Block the Bombs Act and to end military aid that enables war crimes. She has not called for a full arms embargo or endorsed BDS by name, though in June 2026 she and fellow council member Roger Dickinson led a city investment policy, aimed mainly at arms suppliers to Israel, that pulled Sacramento’s money out of Lockheed Martin. At a late-August 2026 forum with Matsui she said “If we want peace, then we have to stop using our tax dollars to aid in a genocide period.” On Hasan Piker’s Twitch stream on October 14, 2026, she said U.S. tax dollars are being used to fund a genocide and, in a rapid-fire round, answered “Yes” to “Ending aid to Israel,” “Sanctioning Israel” and “A free Palestine.”
A 4/5. She names the genocide in her own voice and would end aid to Israel: in a rapid-fire round on Hasan Piker’s Twitch stream on October 14, 2026, she answered “Yes” to “Ending aid to Israel,” “Sanctioning Israel” and “A free Palestine,” and in the same stream she said U.S. tax dollars are being used to fund a genocide. Her platform’s foreign-policy section is headed “Stop the Genocide in Palestine” and promises to “immediately sign onto” the Block the Bombs Act and to “end military aid that enables war crimes and the occupation of Gaza”; her home page vows to push to “ban the sale of weapons used to carry out genocide.” At an August 2026 candidate forum she said, “If we want peace, then we have to stop using our tax dollars to aid in a genocide period.” No Zionist or right-to-defend frame appears in her record. What keeps her short of 5: the end to all aid is a one-word answer, while her written pledges stop at offensive weapons and aid tied to war crimes; she has not endorsed BDS by name (the June 2026 city investment policy she led screens out weapons makers in general); and her council record is mixed: the CAIR-drafted ceasefire resolution she co-introduced in January 2024 was never heard, and she missed the vote on the mayor’s bilateral text. Counter-case: 4, since the one-word answer is all that reaches past her written pledges.
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